Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 62 63
Rank change year-on-year -53 +1 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,533 1,845 3,636
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.65% 4.30% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 4.61% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 967 2,722
10th Percentile £48,289 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,421 39,984 83,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.77% 93.29% 84.23%
Number of salaries quoted 44,440 20,998 60,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,913 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 25 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -52 1,395 £75,000 +0.17% 435
London +4 710 £85,000 - 183
UK excluding London -104 697 £67,500 -3.57% 293
Work from Home -35 650 £69,310 -0.99% 232
North of England -54 313 £69,310 -4.07% 101
South East -61 169 £67,500 - 85
North West -64 154 £75,000 +5.26% 67
Yorkshire -24 101 £69,310 -7.43% 23
Midlands -90 74 £68,000 +4.62% 35
South West -92 61 £52,500 -23.39% 38
North East +5 58 £65,000 -9.72% 11
West Midlands -57 53 £77,500 +10.71% 19
East of England -24 40 £60,100 -3.84% 13
Scotland -75 30 £62,500 -18.73% 9
East Midlands -69 20 £66,000 +5.60% 16
Northern Ireland -32 9 £62,500 +25.00% 7
Wales -40 8 £53,171 +2.25% 8
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.76%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.11%) Confluence
3 14 (0.91%) Apache
3 14 (0.91%) IIS
3 14 (0.91%) OpenStack
4 12 (0.78%) CMS
4 12 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (0.72%) JBoss
6 7 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.39%) WordPress
8 5 (0.33%) Drupal
8 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.26%) Camunda
9 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.20%) Liferay
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) Appian
11 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.46%) Maya
3 6 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.13%) Endur
3 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.065%) Actimize
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.065%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 822 (53.62%) AWS
2 629 (41.03%) Azure
3 309 (20.16%) GCP
4 251 (16.37%) Serverless
5 152 (9.92%) SaaS
6 130 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (8.35%) GitHub
8 118 (7.70%) AWS Lambda
9 107 (6.98%) Amazon S3
10 94 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
11 86 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
12 71 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
13 65 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
14 55 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
15 48 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 47 (3.07%) Azure AKS
17 45 (2.94%) Datadog
18 44 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
19 42 (2.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.91%) Broadband
2 22 (1.44%) Network Security
3 11 (0.72%) DNS
4 10 (0.65%) MQTT
5 9 (0.59%) HTTP
6 8 (0.52%) VPN
7 7 (0.46%) AMQP
7 7 (0.46%) DHCP
7 7 (0.46%) Firewall
7 7 (0.46%) Internet
8 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.33%) LTE
10 4 (0.26%) RFID
11 3 (0.20%) DMARC
11 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
11 3 (0.20%) Modbus
11 3 (0.20%) SNMP
11 3 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (12.85%) NoSQL
2 190 (12.39%) MongoDB
3 182 (11.87%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (6.00%) MySQL
5 79 (5.15%) SQL Server
6 77 (5.02%) Relational Database
7 71 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (3.78%) DynamoDB
9 49 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (2.48%) Redis
12 31 (2.02%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.96%) Big Data
14 23 (1.50%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.78%) Pinecone
16 10 (0.65%) Power BI
17 9 (0.59%) DB2
18 7 (0.46%) Hadoop
19 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
19 6 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 194 (12.65%) Git
2 143 (9.33%) GitLab
3 131 (8.55%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.78%) TeamCity
5 43 (2.80%) JIRA
5 43 (2.80%) JUnit
6 36 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 31 (2.02%) CircleCI
7 31 (2.02%) Cypress.io
8 30 (1.96%) Mockito
9 29 (1.89%) Maven
10 25 (1.63%) Claude Code
11 18 (1.17%) SonarQube
12 16 (1.04%) Selenium
13 15 (0.98%) Bitbucket
13 15 (0.98%) Vite
14 14 (0.91%) JMeter
15 8 (0.52%) Postman
15 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 438 (28.57%) Finance
2 302 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 162 (10.57%) Banking
4 132 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.52%) Law
6 98 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (5.54%) Retail
8 75 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (3.52%) Financial Institution
10 46 (3.00%) Back Office
11 34 (2.22%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.17%) Billing
13 18 (1.17%) Legal
13 18 (1.17%) Marketing
14 17 (1.11%) Advertising
15 16 (1.04%) Games
16 14 (0.91%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.78%) Front Office
18 9 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 520 (33.92%) Developer
2 403 (26.29%) Senior
3 318 (20.74%) Software Engineer
4 224 (14.61%) Architect
5 208 (13.57%) Lead
6 138 (9.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 133 (8.68%) Java Developer
8 121 (7.89%) Senior Developer
9 107 (6.98%) Java Engineer
10 106 (6.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 99 (6.46%) .NET Developer
12 85 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
13 63 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 58 (3.78%) Software Developer
15 55 (3.59%) Lead Developer
15 55 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
16 50 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
17 47 (3.07%) Senior Java Engineer
18 45 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
18 45 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (21.72%) React
2 329 (21.46%) .NET
3 272 (17.74%) RESTful
4 267 (17.42%) Node.js
5 257 (16.76%) Spring
6 232 (15.13%) Spring Boot
7 215 (14.02%) REST
8 195 (12.72%) Kafka
9 127 (8.28%) AngularJS
10 110 (7.18%) .NET Core
11 103 (6.72%) ASP.NET
12 99 (6.46%) Vue
13 87 (5.68%) gRPC
14 85 (5.54%) HTML
15 78 (5.09%) ASP.NET Core
16 76 (4.96%) CSS
17 66 (4.31%) .NET Framework
18 64 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
19 55 (3.59%) OAuth
20 53 (3.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 432 (28.18%) Cloud Native
2 263 (17.16%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (7.05%) Product Ownership
4 81 (5.28%) Enterprise Software
5 63 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
6 53 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (3.00%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.94%) Over-the-Top Content
9 36 (2.35%) Algorithms
10 35 (2.28%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.70%) Blockchain
12 26 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.70%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 21 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
14 21 (1.37%) Onboarding
15 20 (1.30%) PKI
16 19 (1.24%) AI Agents
17 18 (1.17%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 92 (6.00%) Linux
2 41 (2.67%) Windows
3 20 (1.30%) Unix
4 8 (0.52%) Android
5 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.33%) CentOS
5 5 (0.33%) Debian
5 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.065%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (49.71%) CI/CD
2 634 (41.36%) Agile
3 571 (37.25%) Software Engineering
4 561 (36.59%) DevOps
5 389 (25.38%) Containerisation
6 376 (24.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 360 (23.48%) Mentoring
8 315 (20.55%) Test Automation
9 298 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 294 (19.18%) Event-Driven
11 287 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
12 286 (18.66%) AI
13 273 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 199 (12.98%) Scrum
15 183 (11.94%) Coaching
16 181 (11.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 181 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
17 172 (11.22%) Clean Code
17 172 (11.22%) TDD
18 169 (11.02%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 523 (34.12%) Java
2 404 (26.35%) Python
3 336 (21.92%) JavaScript
4 332 (21.66%) SQL
5 306 (19.96%) C#
6 242 (15.79%) TypeScript
7 128 (8.35%) Go
8 51 (3.33%) Scala
9 47 (3.07%) PHP
10 46 (3.00%) C++
11 44 (2.87%) Bash
12 31 (2.02%) C
13 28 (1.83%) Ruby
14 24 (1.57%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.50%) Rust
16 21 (1.37%) PowerShell
17 19 (1.24%) Kotlin
18 18 (1.17%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.91%) Groovy
20 11 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 179 (11.68%) Degree
2 176 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 95 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 29 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.76%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.70%) CISSP
10 23 (1.50%) Master's Degree
11 20 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 16 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.91%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
14 11 (0.72%) CISM
15 8 (0.52%) PhD
16 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.33%) ISACA
17 5 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (6.65%) QA
2 39 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 33 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (2.09%) GDPR
5 24 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.50%) NIST
7 21 (1.37%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.91%) GRC
9 11 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.65%) NCSC
10 10 (0.65%) WCAG
11 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.33%) IFRS
14 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
15 2 (0.13%) SLA
16 1 (0.065%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.065%) Solvency II
System Software
1 453 (29.55%) Docker
2 15 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.065%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 487 (31.77%) Kubernetes
2 293 (19.11%) Terraform
3 87 (5.68%) Ansible
3 87 (5.68%) Grafana
4 48 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.63%) Argo
6 23 (1.50%) Kibana
7 17 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.85%) Puppet
9 12 (0.78%) Cilium
10 9 (0.59%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.26%) Packer
11 4 (0.26%) Podman
11 4 (0.26%) Rancher
12 3 (0.20%) Istio
12 3 (0.20%) Nagios
13 2 (0.13%) MIIS
13 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 164 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.24%) Google
3 55 (3.59%) Oracle
4 45 (2.94%) Typelevel
5 22 (1.44%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 19 (1.24%) Splunk
8 16 (1.04%) AppDynamics
9 14 (0.91%) IBM
10 12 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
11 11 (0.72%) Guidewire
12 9 (0.59%) Adobe
12 9 (0.59%) Cisco
12 9 (0.59%) SAP
13 8 (0.52%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.46%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.46%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.46%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.39%) F5